Growing up in the 1970’s and 80’s, I saw the rise of video games. The large coin operated video game machines were new and exciting. Couple that with Star Wars and you have one interested kid…me. I found myself saying “I want to build that.” when I looked at the game screen or watched a […]
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Scratch Tutorial – Create Your Scratch Account Create Your Scratch Account New to Scratch or “Block Coding”? Watch our block coding overview here to see what we mean. If you are just starting off learning to code, try using Scratch. Watch this video tutorial to create your user account which then allows you to share
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Scratch Tutorial – Learning to Move Part 1 Learning to Move (Part I) New to Scratch or “Block Coding”? Watch our block coding overview here to see what we mean. If you are just starting off learning to code, try using Scratch. Watch this video tutorial to see how simple it is to get a sprite
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Scratch Tutorial – Learning to Move Part 2 Difficulty: Intro This is a continuation of having your sprite (aka the Scratch the Cat graphic) move across your scene. Notice there are other BLUE blocks under the MOTION category. Try them out. Don’t worry YOU WON’T BREAK ANYTHING! Go Back to Part I NEXT: Basic Loops
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Scratch Tutorial – Using Basic Loops (Repeat) Difficulty: Intro This tutorial demonstrates how you get an action or activity to repeat using a programming concept known as a loop. Loops are great when you need something to happen over and over again. You can control how many times a loop will occur or you can
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Scratch Tutorial – Working with Costumes Difficulty: Intro In this tutorial you will begin to understand how your can change or manipulate sprites by editing costumes. When you change a sprite color, modify the way it looks, or duplicate it you are working with a costume. Basically, a costume is a variation of a
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Scratch Tutorial – Working with Sounds Difficulty: Intro Sounds are an important part to any animation or game. This tutorial lets you use sounds in your animation and have a little fun. Scratch has a great library of sounds and loops that will make your work really interesting. Previous: Working with Sprites and Costumes Next:
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Scratch – Working with Backgrounds Difficulty: Intro As you work on your project, adding an interesting background is very important. This tutorial goes over how to change your background. Keep an eye out for further ways to customize a background in a later tutorial. Previous: Working with Sounds Next: Using Broadcast [message type=”custom” width=”100%”
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Scratch Tutorial – Using Broadcast Difficulty: Intro and Intermediate Stepping into this tutorial takes you right to the edge of the ‘intro’ and begins to move you towards a more complex way of making your animation or game. Broadcast is like yelling out something to tell someone to do something or maybe handing off a
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